If you are a creative individual, you must see this!
In 2013, Chicago Ideas hosted Tracy Letts who shared his Ten Commandments on how to live a creative Life. You'll find a bit more than you came for in this talk. Enjoy!
Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a Tony award winning actor. Read more about him here.
While tastes in music vary widely from one generation to the next, with each complaining about the unsuitability, volume, or subject matter of the others’ favorite tunes, our suspicion that the overall quality and originality of modern pop music is declining rapidly is now supported by science.
In Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music, a study conducted by Joan Serra at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, we see hard evidence that music offers less diversity and more volume than in years past. In fact, fans of the genre experience roughly the same ten chords, a decrease in recording technique diversity, narrowing of instrument types, and a near total loss of unusual transitions within the music.
I was playing piano in the streets of Paris the way I normally do, when a stranger came up to me and asked if he could play. This is what happened:
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While we know that Einstein grew up in a household were music was highly valued, and as a child and adult he dearly loved playing the violin and the piano, the exact correlation between practicing and learning a musical instrument and an uptick in intelligence was relatively unknown until recently.
Researchers at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital published the findings of their study in September of 2015. They set out to answer questions about the differences between the cognitive function of children with years of musical training, and children who have not taken any music lessons.
I wanted to try this for a while but I was kind of scared to do it.
It was definitely an interesting experience, but I would never do it again.
This is Piano on the Brooklyn Bridge!
Jazz has often been referred to as America’s classical music. A fairly young genre of music when you consider the comparison to classical, but Jazz has been around long enough to evolve over time. Throughout its transformation, its distinctive sound has won the hearts of minds of millions across the globe for decades. Sadly, many Americans have overlooked this music and that is just a human tragedy. Count me among the lovers of Jazz and as such, I’d like to help you avoid that tragedy with you 10 Jazz musicians every human should hear.
